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Cinematic Portrayal of Greek Virtue and Philosophers

84). However, Socrates is willing to concede that an individual can desire an evil thing if he mistakenly first evaluates it as go...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

US Sexuality and the Media

up, an idea that is still being felt in many rape cases where women are asked if they were acting seductively, wearing revealing c...

Offensive Art Forms in Stanley Kubrick's Film A Clockwork Orange

most fundamental theme or issue in this particular film involves the title. This title refers to an individual who is nothing more...

Fantasy and Science Fiction Mythology Uses

troubles of Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira who have been living on a desolate planet. A rescue team finally arrives lead by ...

American Dream and Ernest Hemingway's Story 'A Clean Well Lighted Place' and John Ford's Film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

sometimes the only way to achieve peace. Doniphon admires the idealism of Stoddard and the two form an unlikely bond. The movie cl...

Work Ethics of Filmmaker Steven Spielberg

so that he could become a television director at Universal Studios for a salary of $225 per week (Cagle, 2002). After serving an ...

Dystopia and the Film The Matrix

an ideal, nonexistent political state and way of life" (Abrams, 1999). Science fiction became a popular genre which was best demon...

Rear Window Film and Feminist Theories of Cinema

the director and the male filmgoer) receive a sexual thrill from watching the victimization of women (Williams 706). As one of th...

Hollywood's 'Talkie' Motion Pictures

phonograph - and when the record skipped, so did the sound synchronization. The results, predictably, were humorous - the movie-go...

The 1982 film Gandhi and its Historical Accuracy

Indian commune where everyone shares the work, no matter how demeaning. Gandhis years in South Africa are spent in a series of tac...

Ben Younger's Film Boiler Room

saying: "Either youre slinging crack rock or youve got a wicked jump shop -- nobody wants to work for it any more. Theres no honor...

Cinema and Truth

sister, Cynthia. As if to complicate matters further, Johns old college friend, Graham, shows up in town for a visit and something...

Lying and Infidelity

In nine pages this paper examines infidelity as a form of lying as represented in the movie Random Hearts and in literature in the...

Mike Nichols' The Birdcage Cinematic Content Analysis

a good impression on his prospective in-laws, Armand and Albert pretend to be straight (Bawer). Instead of going for the easy lau...

'News on the March' Scene Opening the Film Citizen Kane

last word of Citizen Kane as he dies in his bed. That word is the infamous "Rosebud." First time viewers, viewers who know nothing...

A Case Study in Requirements of Functional Human/Computer Interactions

This paper examines functionality issues required by a video shop to set up a database information system to allow customers easie...

Book and Film Versions of Empire of the Sun

and he never becomes completely embittered. In this book (made later into a film by Steven Spielberg), Ballard relates the life o...

My Left Foot Film Analysis

a childs graduation or see a grandchild give birth. A poor person giving away his or her last dollar is a more moving scenario tha...

Novel and Film Adaptation of The Perfect Storm

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the book and movie versions of The Perfect Storm and how each portrays man and natu...

The 1925 Film The Gold Rush by Star and Director Charlie Chaplin

The second full length feature Chaplin made in 1925 is the subject of this paper consisting of five pages. There is one movie pos...

Of Mice and Men, Take Two

mini-series The Stand, for which he won a SAG award, and he also received an Oscar in 1995 for Best Supporting Actor in the film F...

How Women Are Treated in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now

(Hunter G01). Kurtz is near death, ravaged by his experiences and close to being insane (Hunter G01). Kurtz has not civilized the ...

Cinema and Tao te Ching Edited by Michael LaFargue

This is mysterious Femininity (Tao Te Ching, p. 70). Lefargue (1992) describes this saying as indicating that femininity is the...

Are Ratings for Movies Censorship or Can They Be Socially Justified?

"The system, whatever its details, is at heart a spin-doctoring plot against rising unhappiness about violent and smutty prime-tim...

Mainstream Cinema and the Portrayal of Women

that there is an interpretation of the films in a subconscious manner. Therefore, the reinforcing is appalling to the baser self, ...

Cinematic Interpretation of History

In terms of the way in which...

American Cinema and Asian Culture

the majority of cases a stereotypical and inaccurate perception. As White (2001) points out, many Asian countries adopted the styl...

Silent to Talkies Cinematic Transition from Metropolis to The Gold Diggers of 1933

simply being "filmed" theater. Metropolis offered a chilling glimpse of the future, as the film is set in the year 2000 in the cit...

Feminist Accomplishments in Erin Brockovich and Chocolat

for how its members would be perceived -- in order to create the fervor that was ultimately produced from its presence. Thr...